Speaking at a seder for American military personnel in the Palm Garden Red Cross club here, Gen. Joseph T. McNarney declared that “despite the fact that your families would like to have their children at home, they must derive satisfaction from the fact that you are passing the holiday in Germany under peaceful conditions and with others of your religion.”
Gen. McNarney told the assembled troops that they must teach the Germans “who outlawed religion and freedom, something about democracy. This job will take many years, and is one to which you must give utmost devotion,” he added. Earlier the U.S. commander-in-chief in Germany had issued a statement hailing the German Passover celebration as the “most significant” of all Passover observances throughout the world.
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